More Fun Searching With Google Wonder Wheel

Posted by Ilka Flood | Posted in Business Tools, Home-Based Business | Posted on 18-02-2010

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Lately it has almost become like a contest between my husband and me. Who can find the coolest tools and gadgets on the internet to help us in building our businesses. I have to admit, so far he is winning. He comes up with the neatest things.

His latest find, the Google Wonder Wheel. Until a couple of days ago I had no idea that it even existed. Since then I have had a lot of fun with it, just for the heck of it.

What is the Google Wonder Wheel? Its a little search engine tool that lets you drill down your search terms.

You find it in the left-hand menu of the Google search engine after you click “Show options.”

And this is how it works. Let’s say you are searching for “home business”, which is a very broad keyword. It then shows you a wheel with related search terms or keywords and key phrases. Like home business ideas, internet home business, starting a home business, work from home and so on. You can click on any of them to drill further down. It also shows you the results of your search on the right.

Let’s see what happens if we click on “work from home”. . . Cool isn’t it?!

You can just keep on drilling down from there and refine your search until you find what you are looking for.

Pretty awesome tool, huh?

Now, I am really curious. Did you know about the Google Wonder Wheel before I did?
Let me know your comments below.

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Comments (11)

Jerome Ratliff said on 19-02-2010

Hi Ika,

I do recall seeing this feature but never ventured off to see what it was.

This is a VERY interesting finding. I’m glad you made us aware of this.

I totally see some major benefits for leveraging this tool for refining our keywords.

Jerome Ratliff

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Ilka Flood Reply:
February 19th, 2010 at 6:10 pm

Hi Jerome,

Thanks for stopping by and leaving your thoughts!

Yeah, I thought it was interesting that in all those years I have used Google I never once thought to click on the “Show options” button

I used to type in variations of the keywords I was searching for manually. But this tool makes it so much easier.

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Jerome Ratliff Reply:
February 19th, 2010 at 4:45 pm

Same here… It never even occurred to me to even click on it.

That happens to the best of us.

Jerome Ratliff

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Jenny said on 20-02-2010

that’s so interesting. i’ll have to check it out next time I use google. I’m thinking of starting my own small business and this might be worth looking into.

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Ilka Flood Reply:
February 20th, 2010 at 2:42 pm

Thanks, Jenny, for stopping by! I bet a lot of people don’t even know about this. I hadn’t until just recently.

If you need any advice with your business, just let me know. I’m here to help you.

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Randy said on 23-02-2010

I’m glad that I got credit for revealing this little known tool to you ;o). I just want to help all your readers improve their network marketing businesses. I hope they use it because their competitors don’t know about it.

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Ilka Flood Reply:
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:56 pm

Hey, credit needs to go to whom deserves it. And since you shared this great tool with me, you get ALL the credit.

Thanks for finding all the cool stuff! You’re a keeper

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Josh Garcia said on 23-02-2010
	Hey Ilka, This is an awesome tool! I didn’t know that was there. Thanks for sharing it with us. Chat with you later… Josh [Reply] Ilka Flood Reply: February 23rd, 2010 at 1:58 pm Yeah it is! And I didn’t know it existed either. So don’t feel bad. All the credit goes to my husband though. He found it. [Reply]

Twila Jacobs said on 27-03-2010
	Geez, I missed this post : 0 That’s pretty cool. I’ll have to check it out. Thanks Randy and Ilka! Twila Twila Jacobs´s last blog ..How to Get Bookings and Recruit at Direct Sales Parties [Reply] Ilka Flood Reply: March 28th, 2010 at 10:16 am Hey Twila, Well, you know about it NOW And you are very welcome. Have an awesome rest of your weekend! Ilka [Reply]